Fat, Dumb, and Happy

You’ve likely heard the phrase before, Got to keep the masses “fat, dumb, and happy”. That way we’re all easier to control. Right?

The quote comes from a Modern Survival Blog reader email who hits the nail on the head. In order to successfully keep the crooked and perhaps criminal ‘game’ going, the majority of the public must be kept in ‘check’. That is, fed well, and distracted and busy so that there is not enough time for the reality of the situation to take root. A reality that may be troublesome for the powers-that-be.

Who am I referring to? I’ll let you figure that out…

Lets face it. The typical life of the ‘working’ American is so busy, pressured, and all-time-consuming, that there really is very little time (none if you let it) to really examine what is going on in the world around you – locally, nationally, and worldwide. Additionally, and unfortunately many people just plain aren’t interested to know anyway.

The system is plainly rigged to keep us fat, dumb, and happy. Not that the combination of afflictions is such a terrible thing, being happy of course is quite a good thing. It’s all about the definitions.

FatThick, Large, Puffed up, Yielding plenty, Having an abundance or amplitude.
Being overly fat is of course, not too healthy. However, the powers-that-be wish to keep you plenty full, both with food and the metaphorical. This will keep the complaints to a minimum and lower the likelihood of challenge.

DumbLacking the power of speech, Lacking intellectual acuity, Not expressed.
Ignorance and the absence of the learned process of thinking for one’s self will lead towards a noticeable lack of speech. More specifically, speech that may be considered powerful or listened to by those with power.

HappyEnjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy.
The happier the people are, the less likely they will demand change. Unfortunately, the PTB have re-defined happiness for many people by way of clever marketing and advertising. Most have fallen for it.

The ‘trick’ has been to draw the majority into debt, which in turn slaves them to the system – forever ‘working’, paying into the system, and at the mercy of their employers – who themselves know it, and often take full advantage of it.

When you owe someone money, or, when someone is giving you money, you are instinctively beholden to them to a degree. Most people know not to bite the hand that feeds them. The PTB knows this too, and therein lies much of their power.

If most people were not debt laden, I would speculate that we would be living in a different country, with different politics.

The first and most important step for anyone while attempting to free themselves, is to get out of debt. Don’t accept the notion of fat, dumb, and happy… instead, fight back and free yourself from the system that enslaves you!

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My friend who raises pigs says they can be quite dangerous man eaters. Look at wild boars and javalina. He says the trick is to talk smooth, keep them happy in their muck cubicles,and of course, stuff them till they can barely wallow.

OP, you’re quite right about the effects of debt and how it drains the productivity of Americans. I discovered being debt free about 15 years ago and managed to achieve it about 6 years ago. You have a different outlook on life and what/who you’re beholden to. I have 22 acres with a paid for house, 2 retirements, money in the bank (just not really in the bank) and I don’t owe anyone any money. I decide what I do every day. I will say though that most people join into the debt cycle with their eyes wide open and do so willingly. It is only when your priorities change that it occurs to people that they are going down the path of financial (and social) destruction. Confused as to how the subject turned into a treatise on MSG, though. I like it, it tastes good. It occurs naturally in many foods and so isn’t labeled, but many people eat them and have no complaints and don’t realize that the compound is there. The concern reached such a level that Australia and New Zealand performed many studies on the compound and found in double blind studies that there was no statistically significant increase in any complaints compared to a placebo! I just retired from the military, I am 60 yo and passed my last PT test with a 93 out of a 100! MMM, mmm, good.

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